U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Local Transit Ad Ban

Posted Friday, March 11, 2016 by Andrew Charles Huff

A U.S Supreme Court without former justice Antonin Scalia just let stand King County Metro’s rejection of a controversial ad that some had called anti-Muslim.

The court declined to hear a challenge from the ad’s sponsors at the American Freedom Defense Initiative. The decision upheld lower courts that had sided with King County. But dissenting Justices Thomas and Alito wanted to grant review and hear the case, citing important First Amendment issues.

The rejected bus ad, headlined “Faces of Global Terrorism,” displayed 16 photographs of wanted terrorism suspects. All had “Muslim-sounding names,” critics subsequently reported.